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Indian spices, sindoor contain lead, claims Harvard study [1]

Young children who regularly ingest Indian spices and ceremonial powders like vermilion, or sindoor, may be exposed to lead, a dangerous neurotoxin, an American study has claimed.

Publication Date: 
17/03/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Spices [3], Lead [4], Health Effects [5], Health [6], Child Health [7], India [8], Toxins [9]
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